The prevalence, characteristics, and correlates of anger among survivors of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.

Anger is a prominent and common emotion in postdisaster settings. However, there has been little systematic investigation of the association of anger with psychopathology or other individual characteristics in disaster survivors. This study examined anger responses reported by disaster survivors and correlates of that anger.Structured interviews were conducted with a volunteer sample of 379 employees of 7 agencies that were highly affected by...